Overview
This role supports Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) invoice resolution for a third-party logistics provider. Responsibilities include researching and resolving carrier invoice discrepancies, billing exceptions, accessorial charges, and other LTL-related financial issues. The position supports internal teams, agents, customers, and carriers to improve invoice accuracy and reduce unresolved disputes.
Responsibilities
- Review LTL carrier invoices and identify discrepancies between quoted, contracted, and billed charges.
- Research and resolve billing exceptions, including reweighs, reclasses, accessorials, duplicate charges, minimum charges, and other carrier adjustments.
- Validate carrier charges against pricing agreements, tariffs, shipment documentation, dimensions, weights, freight class, and applicable rules.
- Submit and manage carrier billing disputes through resolution, including supporting documentation, follow-up, escalation, and credit verification.
- Communicate directly with LTL carriers to challenge unsupported charges and obtain corrections, credits, or additional documentation.
- Partner with agents, operations, pricing, billing, claims, and accounting teams to resolve invoice issues efficiently and accurately.
- Research shipment history, bills of lading, proofs of delivery, inspection reports, carrier notes, and other documentation needed to support dispute resolution.
- Track open disputes and aging items, maintain clear notes, and proactively follow up until each issue reaches final resolution.
- Identify carrier-side errors early to help protect customer billing accuracy.
- Identify recurring billing trends, carrier behavior, or process gaps and escalate opportunities for broader corrective action.
- Maintain organized records of disputes, credits, approvals, and supporting documentation within the organization’s systems.
- Provide clear, timely updates to internal stakeholders on the status, financial impact, and resolution of invoice discrepancies.
- Support special projects, audits, and process improvements related to LTL billing accuracy and invoice resolution.
Requirements
- Transportation, logistics, billing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, or invoice-resolution experience required.
- Strong attention to detail and high degree of accuracy when reviewing rates, charges, and shipment documentation.
- Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage a high volume of open issues while prioritizing by urgency, financial impact, and aging.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with confidence working directly with carriers and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to follow an issue from initial research through final resolution without losing ownership or follow-up.
- Comfort working with spreadsheets, transportation management systems, carrier portals, and standard business applications.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a cross-functional team.
- Position may be based in Atlanta, Charlotte, or Chicago, with remote candidates considered.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2-3+ years of professional transportation, logistics, freight billing, or invoice-resolution experience.
- Previous LTL billing or carrier invoice audit experience strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with LTL pricing, freight classification, NMFC, carrier rules tariffs, accessorial charges, reweighs, and reclasses.
- Experience researching and disputing carrier invoice adjustments or freight-bill exceptions.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and experience reviewing large volumes of transactional data.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
- Demonstrated history of strong follow-through, organization, and professional communication.
Compensation & Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, and HSA benefits beginning the first of the month following the date of hire.
- Paid time off.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- 401(k) with a 3.5% company match.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The organization is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in any aspect of employment based on legally protected characteristics.